Monday, April 23, 2012

Safari Subtraction {Freebie}

It's hard to believe that my students and I only have 23 days left of school. Before ya'll start throwing tomatoes at me and booing, we went back to school on August 22nd. We've also had super short Thanksgiving and Winter Breaks and no other random days off other than federal holidays. So our early summer break is deserved in my humble, little opinion. ;)

Since our school year is quickly coming to an end, we will be taking our end of the year benchmark testing soon, which in second grade means fluency tests in addition and subtraction facts. We practice our facts daily in class, it's a part of their homework routine too, but still many of my friends struggle with quick recall of their subtraction facts. My kiddos are expected to be fluent in their subtraction fact recall from 18, so I whipped up a quick little game for my friends to use during math centers this week to practice our subtraction facts from 18. All you need are some math counters, a paper clip, and pencil and your students are ready to play this subtraction spinner game!